For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.